Robert Southey's Keswick: Enhancing Understanding of the Literary Culture of the Northern Lake District

这个项目开发了开放获取数字版罗伯特苏塞的书信集：1791-1815的影响。苏塞（1774-1843）是一位备受争议的浪漫主义桂冠诗人、散文家和历史学家，他的同时代人既爱又恨。他在北湖区的凯斯威克集镇生活了40年，他的坟墓就在镇上的一个教堂墓地里。凯斯威克博物馆拥有一个独特的，大量的和未充分利用的手稿，书籍，肖像和其他物品的收集和与苏塞，他的家人和他的朋友。这个档案是《书信集》的关键资源。凯斯威克博物馆是当地主要的遗产组织。在2017-8年，它接待了19，419名游客，并为来自周边地区的约5，600名学童提供了现场教育课程。该项目将与凯斯威克博物馆合作，帮助它改变向游客和该地区第二阶段学校教师和学生展示苏塞及其圈子的重要性的方式。该项目的目标是：提高凯斯威克博物馆的能力，以介绍苏塞和他的圈子作为一个游客景点。发展凯斯威克博物馆在其苏塞藏品方面的现场可持续专业知识。与凯斯威克博物馆合作，创建一个资源，鼓励游客探索“苏塞的凯斯威克”，并发现和享受该镇文化遗产的一个关键部分。扩大凯斯威克博物馆KS 2教育项目的范围和广度，特别是在扫盲方面，并首次将苏塞和他的圈子纳入其中。发展对苏塞及其与凯斯威克关系的认识和了解，作为该地区更广泛的文化旅游战略的一部分。项目团队将通过与凯斯威克博物馆合作开发利用其苏塞收藏的新景点来实现这些目标。这些将包括博物馆的苏塞藏品的展示，一本指南，一张传单，带游客徒步游览“苏塞的凯斯威克”，以及供关键阶段2教师和学生扫盲工作使用的教育材料。后者将包括一个“旅游箱”，可供那些无法参观博物馆的当地学校使用。该项目将通过培训凯斯威克博物馆的志愿者为游客解释新的苏塞展览并提供导游步行图尔斯，进一步丰富游客的体验。湖泊文化的宣传发布将进一步促进“苏塞的凯斯威克”。这项工作是重要和及时的，因为它涉及两个明确的当地需求领域：旅游经济和教育。湖区非常依赖旅游业来维持经济，吸引了4100万游客。每年访问。凯斯威克仍在从2016年的严重洪灾中恢复，并希望发展和增长其吸引游客的能力的各个方面。凯斯威克和北部湖区的文学遗产丰富，但相对欠发达。它没有任何网站可以与比阿特丽克斯·波特（Beatrix Potter）（每年25万游客）在南湖吸引的游客数量相比。威廉·华兹华斯（William Wordsworth）：每年5万名访客。这将利用一个关键的当地资源（苏塞收藏在凯斯威克博物馆），以提高知名度和吸引力的一个关键的当地名人（苏塞）和当地文化遗产。因此，它提供了一个重要的机会，以提高价值的一个潜在的重要文化目的地在北部湖区。通过与凯斯威克博物馆合作，加强和扩大其与学校的合作，该项目还将有助于当地的教育议程。它将使该地区的教师和学生能够使用并受益于利用当地文学遗产和当地历史的新学习资源。第一次，提供一个“旅游箱”将使凯斯威克博物馆的教育提供给那些更远的学校，无法亲自参观博物馆。

This project develops the impact of the open access digital edition The Collected Letters of Robert Southey: 1791-1815. Loved and loathed by his contemporaries, Southey (1774-1843) was a highly controversial Romantic Poet Laureate, essayist and historian. He lived for 40 years in the north Lake District market town of Keswick and his grave is in one of the town's churchyards. The Keswick Museum holds a unique, substantial and underused collection of manuscripts, books, portraits and other items by and associated with Southey, his family and his friends. This archive was a key resource for The Collected Letters. Keswick Museum is the major local heritage organisation. In 2017-8 it welcomed 19,419 visitors and provided on-site educational sessions to c.5600 schoolchildren from the immediate surrounding area. This project will collaborate with Keswick Museum to help it transform the way it is able to present the significance of Southey and his circle to its visitors and to key stage 2 school teachers and pupils in the region. The project's objectives are:to increase Keswick Museum's ability to present Southey and his circle as a visitor attraction. to develop Keswick Museum's on-site, sustainable expertise in its Southey collections. to collaborate with Keswick Museum to create a resource encouraging visitors to explore 'Southey's Keswick' and to discover and enjoy a key part of the town's cultural heritage. to extend the reach and range of Keswick Museum's KS2 education programme, particularly in literacy, and embed Southey and his circle in it for the first time. to develop awareness and knowledge of Southey and his relationship to Keswick as part of the region's wider Cultural Tourism strategy. The project team will achieve these by working with Keswick Museum to develop new attractions that draw on its Southey collection. These will include a display of the Museum's Southey holdings, a guidebook, a leaflet taking visitors on a walking tour of 'Southey's Keswick', and educational materials for use by Key Stage 2 teachers and pupils working on literacy. The latter will include a 'touring box' that can be used by those local schools who are unable to visit the Museum. The project will further enrich visitors' experiences by training Keswick Museum's volunteers to interpret the new Southey display for visitors and to give guided walking tours. A publicity release for Lakes Culture will further promote 'Southey's Keswick'.This work is important and timely because it engages with two areas of well-defined local need: the tourist economy and education. The Lake District is exceptionally dependent on tourism to sustain its economy and attracts 41m. visits every year. Keswick is still recovering from the severe floods of 2016, and wishes to develop and grow all aspects of its ability to attract visitors. The literary heritage of Keswick and the north Lakes is rich, but comparatively under-developed. It has no sites that can compare with the visitor numbers attracted to sites in the south Lakes associated with Beatrix Potter (250k visitors p.a.) and William Wordsworth (50k visitors p.a.). This will use a key local resource (the Southey collection at Keswick Museum) to raise the visibility and attraction both of a key local celebrity (Southey) and of local cultural heritage. It thus offers a significant opportunity to enhance the value of a potentially important cultural destination in the north Lakes area. By collaborating with Keswick Museum to enhance and extend its work with schools, the project will also contribute to local educational agendas. It will allow teachers and pupils from the region to use and benefit from new learning resources that draw on their local literary heritage and their local history. For the first time, the provision of a 'touring box' will make Keswick Museum's educational offer available to those schools that are further afield and unable to visit the Museum in person.